Peddling your wares

Today I was visited by two young ladies peddling their wares. What were they peddling? you may enquire. Advertising space. Does advertising work? I often ask myself this question. Before we moved to the showroom we're in now we advertised much more. The building we worked from was in a busy area but not on the high street. It was in a car park right next to a very busy bank and the back entrance to Woolworths. You would have thought every one would have noticed it. But they didn't. At least one person per day would say "I didn't know you were here." It made me wonder if all the money we spent on advertising did any good. Regardless of my doubts we still advertise. Not as much as then. We now stick to the local free paper and hope that someone will notice our ad. and pop in and purchase.
Any how when the girls arrived I was sat behind my desk alone. As usual I had upset a fellow co. worker "idiot?" it's not difficult to do. This particular "idiot?" had been over to see if we could get a vertical blind altered on the drop. He brought back a sample of the alteration. On one side there was a crease and on the other two lines of stitching.Another "idiot?" suggested steaming the louvre obviously to remove the crease. The first "idiot?" piped up "steaming wont get rid of stitch lines" now I'm not a rocket scientist but I thought this was bloody obvious and I said so. This went down like a lead balloon. He bristled and huffed and stropped off. I had obviously hit a raw nerve when I said he had made "a bloody stupid statement." He went off into the warehouse and ignored me for a while. I then managed to upset him again. A fellow co. worker "idiot?" had made an nice cup of tea. And I innocently said "That was great J** made the only nice cuppa I had yesterday." The upset "idiot?" retorted "Thanks for saying I make shit tea." I didn't say that. The not so good cups I had yesterday included some I made myself. It just wasn't a good tea day. Why? oh why? do my fellow co. wokers "idiots?" take offence to everything I say!!